[DCRB-L] WG3: Edition area

[Deborah J. Leslie]

I am troubled by the instruction to transcribe, presumably in the 250, multiple edition statements. As Ann notes, the 250 is non-repeatable. Granted that there may be multiple edition statements in different sources, but what would be the drawback in transcribing the one from the chief source, and noting the others if they give additional or different information? Could you provide some examples, Manon, about the variety of edition statements that may appear in one work? 

And while I think about it, examples should probably be given in MARC21 format. We'll all need to work out a convention for omitting if necessary part of the tagging for a field. Perhaps something like:

260 <...> $b Published by John Grigg : $b J. Howe, stereotyper <...> 

Deborah J. Leslie
Chair, RBMS Bibliographic Standards Committee
Head of Cataloging
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